- From: Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:51:53 -0400
- To: "Aryeh Gregor" <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Peter Moulder" <peter.moulder@monash.edu>, www-style@w3.org
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com> > wrote: >> We need a unit which is proportional to the viewer's comfortable >> psychophysic viewing size at current resolution on that device. To >> relieve >> us from deprecating pt, I would suggest that unit be equivalent >> psychophysically to 1 pt on book printed pages, so we can just re-use pt >> for this purpose. > > Maybe rem does what you want? > > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-values/#the-rem-unit Thanks. That seems to get closer to a reliable proxy for the psychophysic unit. However, I suspect I could still think of scenarios where the user may want to set a different default font size than the user wants for the overall psychophysic unit for all other design decisions made on the page. I defer to feedback from the list.
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